WaPo Fact-Checks Veep on Admin’s Amnesty Bill, Fentanyl
Kudos to Kessler
By Andrew R. Arthur on October 11, 2024
Vice President (and Democratic presidential candidate) Kamala Harris recently sat down for a variety of interviews, some serious (with Bill Whittaker of CBS News’s “60 Minutes”), others not so much (with Alex Cooper of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, Howard Stern, and the women of “The View”). The Washington Post’s “fact checker”, Glenn Kessler, analyzed Harris’s claims on two border issues — an administration immigration bill and fentanyl smuggling — and found them wanting.
“The First Bill We Proposed to Congress Was to Fix Our Broken Immigration System”. During his interview with the Veep, Whittaker focused in on border policy, noting that “there was an historic flood of undocumented immigrants coming across the border the first three years of your administration”, and that in fact “arrivals quadrupled from the last year of President Trump”.
He then asked Harris directly: “Was it a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as much as you did?”
The vice president never really answered the question, first offering deflection, describing illegal entries as “a longstanding problem” and then claiming, “solutions are at hand”. She next asserted: “And from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions”.
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